32M employees offered biochip hand implants for work monitoring, payments

Businessam StaffJuly 24, 2017

Three Square Market (32M) is offering implanted chips to employees interested in being bio-hacked. The new scheme, which 32M emphasised as being voluntary, begins on 1 August. According to the firm, the RFID chip will be implanted into their hand to “make purchases in their break room micro market, open doors, login to computers, use […]

Wimbledon 2017: The tech behind the world’s top tennis tournament

Businessam StaffJuly 13, 2017

The Championships at Wimbledon, which consumes some 28 tons of strawberries, 10,000 litres of cream, and 320,000 glasses of Pimm’s per year, is notable for its seemingly unchecked luxuriant hedonism. But while most companies, organisations, and institutions are looking to cut costs, Wimbledon has stuck to its mantra. Don’t do things cheaper; do things better. Case in point: Wimbledon’s […]

Alibaba launches low-cost voice assistant amid AI drive

Businessam StaffJuly 5, 2017

China’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd launched on Wednesday a cut-price voice assistant speaker, similar to Amazon.com Inc’s “Echo”, its first foray into artificially intelligent home devices. According to Reuters’ report, the “Tmall Genie”, named after the company’s e-commerce platform Tmall, costs 499 yuan ($73.42), significantly less than western counterparts by Amazon and Alphabet Inc’s Google, […]

Facebook now let you liven up comments by posting a GIF

Businessam StaffJune 26, 2017

Moving images can now replace still pictures in fun new feature Facebook has just added a feature to their commenting functionality – and we’ve all been waiting for it. What would we do without photo comments on Facebook? How would our friends know how we really felt if we couldn’t post a meme of a […]

Facebook’s latest app is designed for video creators

Businessam StaffJune 24, 2017

In a bid to keep its creator community happy, Facebook announced that it’s planning a whole new app just for them later this year. It’s essentially a video creation app made just for its star broadcasters, who are also the same folks who are deemed worthy enough to use Facebook Mentions, an app only available […]

Tesla wants to start its own music streaming service

Businessam StaffJune 23, 2017

Tesla is in talks with music industry about creating its own streaming music service. The carmaker, according to music industry sources, says it has had talks with all of the major labels about licensing a proprietary music service that would come bundled with its cars, which already come equipped with a high-tech dashboard and internet […]

How Microsoft influenced the first iPhone, and other origin stories

Businessam StaffJune 23, 2017

Want to know the real reason Apple started building the iPhone? Apparently, it was because founder Steve Jobs just “hated this guy at Microsoft.” That revelation came from former Apple software engineer Scott Forstall, who recently spoke with Computer History Museum historian John Markoff about the history of the iPhone and iPad. Apple was originally […]